GUINEA-BISSAU STOPS VACCINE STUDY FUNDED BY TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. (PHOTO).

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 Guinea-Bissau stops vaccine study funded by Trump administration Guinea-Bissau's foreign minister has said his government has stopped a study funded by the Trump administration aiming to evaluate side effects of the life-saving hepatitis B vaccine, including any links to autism. The West African country, one of the region's poorest, has high rates of hepatitis B, and the prospective study had drawn an outcry from scientists and international health bodies because only half the newborns in the trial would get the vaccine at birth. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said it was not ethical. Guinea-Bissau last month suspended the trial pending an ethical review. Critics had said it was being used to test theories linking vaccines to autism, long promoted by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr but contradicted by scientific evidence. Foreign Minister Joao Bernardo Vieira said in an interview on Tuesday that the study had been closed, citing concer...

U.S,WARNS THEIR CITIZENS IN SOUTH AFRICA OF A POSSIBLE ATTACK VERY SOON BY EXTREMISTS.

                            Today tuesday,the United States warns it citizens of a possible attack by extremists {Islamic militants}against U.S facilities or interests in South Africa.In a statement,the U.S embassy said it had no information about a specific target or timing,but advised U.S citizens to review their personal security plans and maintain their vigilance.A spokeswoman for the police in Gauteng the province that is home to both the U.S embassy in Pretoria and its consulate in Johannesburg,said she was unaware of the U.S warning.

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